"You're doing it wrong"Chthonic confesses: "Only last year did I discover why the lids of things in tubes have a recessed pointy bit built into them." Tell us about the facepalm moment when you realised you were doing something wrong.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23)
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It was used in my schoolI distinctly remember, aged 7 or 8 (as I was then) replying to my parents' question of how my day at school went, that something was "crap". I didn't really know what it meant myself either, but from the contexts where I'd heard it used at school, I deduced it meant "a bit rubbish".
Gulps from parents. Meaningful looks exchanged. "A bit what, Julian?" (For 'tis my name. Born in the 60s, see.)
I then had a long anguished-modern-parents meeting where they wanted to know where I'd heard the word, and that I shouldn't repeat it, because it wasn't one to be used in polite company.
From this, I learned not to say "fuck" in front of my mum and dad either, because while I didn't really know what that meant, I did know that it was a much ruder word than crap. And only to giggle when Dad said it (on hitting his thumb with a hammer, etc.) as long as Mum wasn't around.
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shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Wed 21 Jul 2010, 17:41,
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